Picture-hanger.



G. JOHNSON.

PICTURE HANGER.

ARPLIOATION IILED APRJSO, 1910.

Patented May 16, 1911.

Wifnesses Attorneys 'ing is a specification.

bination and arrangement of parts and in GUNNAR JOHNSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PICTURE-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16, 1911.

Application filed April 30, 1910. Serial No. 558,554.

T 0 all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUNNAR Jouxsos', a'citizen of the United States, residing-at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Picturellanger, of which the follow- This invention relates to picture hangers.

The object of the invention is to provide an exceedingly strong, simple, durable and inexpensive picture hanger which. 'an be easily and quickly secured in position upon the wall, and which will take a firm enough hold upon the plaster thereof to support a heavy picture.

A further object of the invention is to form a picture hanger from a single blank. of metal and to cause the same to hold a plurality of nails in inclined positions at different horizontal places upon the wall.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the comthe details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it beinp understood that changes in the precise embodiment of invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanyincdrawings forming part of this specificationz l igure 1 is a perspective view of a picture hanger constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section through the improved picture hanger showing the same in position upon the wall. Fig. 3 is a plan view showing the metallic blank from which the improved picture hanger preferably is formed.

Like reference numerals indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawing,

The picture hanger of the present invention preferably is formed of a llhlllk of metal or other suitable material such as is shown in Fig. l. This blank preferably although not essentially is cut away at its edges as indicated at 1 in order to shape the same in an ornamental manner. Adjacent the wide end thereof, the blank preferably is formed with a plurality of out-punched portions 2 each of said outpunched or dome shaped portions 2 being formed with a perforation or nail hole 3 in the apex thereof. After the blank has been shaped and punched in the manner indicated in Fig. 1, the lower end -:t thereof is bent into hook form as iiulicated in Fig. l to produce a hook or supportingmember adapted to repreferably are formed in the blank before the outer plate 6 is bent over upon the inner plate 5. The outer plate (5 of the picture hunger is so bent that the perforations 3 in the outpunehed portion 2 will be slightly out of line with the nail holes 7 in the inner plate 5, said nail holes 7 as shown in Fig. 2

being disposed in a slightly lower position than the perforations 3 when the picture hunger is in position upon the wall. For this reason, when the nails 8 are driven through the perforations 3 and 7, said nails will be disposed on a downward incline and will thus-take a very firm grip on the plaster of the wall.

The nail holdin means in the plates 5 and 6 are pret'era ly, although not esSen-.

tially, arranged intriangular position with respect to each other, two of said nail holes being preferably arranged side'by side adjacent the upper end of the hanger and one of said nail holes being arranged below the first mentioned pair and at an intermediate point with relation thereto so as to form the lower end of the triangle, the upper corners of the triangle being defined by the two upper out-punched portions 2---2. The purpose in arranging the nail holding means so as to dispose the nails in different horizontal planes on the wall, is to cause a firmer grip to be had by the nails on the plaster than would be the case if all of the nails were arranged in a horizontal line.

The outpuuched portions of the outer plate serve to space the nail engaging portions of said outer plate a sutlicient distance;

away from the nail engaging portions of the inner plate to cause the nails to be firmly held in, proper position when properly out of alinementf The picture hanger of the present invention is exceptionally strong, simple, durable and inexpensive in construction as well as thoroughly practical and efiicient in use.

What is claimed as new is 1. A picture hanger comprising a pair of inner and outer parallel plates secured together in contact with each other, each plate having a perforation therein, the perfora .to act jointly as nail receiving means, one plate being out-punched adjacent the perforated portions thereof.

3. A picture hanger comprising a pair of plates in parallelism with each other, one of said plates having an outstanding perforated portion and the other of said plates having a perforation slightly out of line with the perforation in said outstanding portion.

i. A picture hanger comprising a pair of plates integrally connected at their upper ends, the inner platebeing cut inward at its sides, and bent upward adjacent its lower end to form a hook, said inner plate being provided with triangularly disposed nail holes, and the outer plate being formed with outpunched portions having perforations at the outer ends thereof, the perforations in said outpunched portions being located in a slightly higher plane than the perforations in said inner plate so as to hold the nails which are driven through the perforations of said outpunched portions and the perforations of said inner plate at an incline.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature 1n the presence of two witnesses.

. GUNNAR JOHNSON.

l/Vitnesses IIULDA Sinermno'r, A. J. MADDEN. 

